Traffic Regulations At Upper Hutt

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 11

Traffic Regulations At Upper Hutt

Sir, —The majority of the citizens of Upper Hutt will be gratified to learn that the borough council has decided that no alteration shall be made to the existing speed limit of 30 miles an hour on the main road running right through the borough. It is difficult to understand why any proposal to allow a greater speed should have been entertained for one moment, particularly in view of the fact that the portion of road restricted to 30 miles has recently been extended from Park Avenue (Lower Hutt) to just past the Taita School, though the density of populalation and volume of traffic iu the latter area are approximately rhe same as in the Upper Hutt area from which it was proposed to remove the speed limit of 30 miles an hour. It is to be hoped that the Transport Department will not accede to the request made by the Upper Hutt Borough Council with reference to the prosecution (or rather non-prosecution) of juvenile offenders against the bylaws relative to bicycles. Any motorist who has occasion to drive through this borough after dark knows what a nuisance the juvenile cyclist is (and there are many of them.) who ride at night with neither lights nor rear reflectors. —I am, etc., SAFETY. Upper Hutt, March 11.